YEAR | DATE | EVENT | PRIME MINISTER | GOVERNOR |
1796 | 16 february | UK Occupation | Robert Andrews | |
1798 | 12 october | Frederick George Augustus North, Earl of Guilford (I) | ||
1799 | 14 march | Josias Champagne | ||
1799 | 22 july | Frederick George Augustus North, Earl of Guilford (II) | ||
1802 | 1 janaury | UK Colony of Ceylon | Frederick George Augustus North, Earl of Guilford (II) | |
1805 | 19 july | Thomas Maitland | ||
1811 | 19 march | John Wilson (I) | ||
1812 | 11 march | Robert Brownrigg | ||
1820 | 1 february | Edward Barnes (I) | ||
1822 | 2 february | Edward Paget | ||
1822 | 6 november | James Campbell | ||
1824 | 18 january | Edward Barnes (II) | ||
1831 | 13 october | John Wilson (II) | ||
1831 | 23 october | Robert Wilmot-Horton | ||
1837 | 7 november | James Alexander Stewart Mackenzie | ||
1841 | 15 april | Colin Campbell | ||
1847 | 19 april | James Emerson Tennent | ||
1847 | 29 may | George Byng, Viscount Torrington | ||
1850 | 18 october | Charles Justin MacCarthy (I) | ||
1850 | 27 november | Sir George William Anderson | ||
1855 | 18 january | Charles Justin MacCarthy (II) | ||
1855 | 11 may | Henry George Ward | ||
1860 | 30 june | Henry Frederick Lockyer | ||
1860 | 30 july | Charles Edmund Wilkinson | ||
1860 | 22 october | Charles Justin MacCarthy (III) | ||
1863 | 1 december | Terence O'Brien | ||
1865 | 21 march | Hercules George Robert Robinson | ||
1872 | 4 january | Henry Turner Irving | ||
1872 | 4 march | William Henry Gregory | ||
1877 | 4 september | James Robert Longden | ||
1883 | 10 july | John Douglas | ||
1883 | 3 december | Arthur Charles Hamilton-Gordon | ||
1890 | 28 may | Arthur Elibank Havelock | ||
1895 | 24 october | Edward Noël Walker | ||
1896 | 10 february | Joseph West Ridgeway | ||
1903 | 19 november | Edward F. im Thurn | ||
1903 | 3 december | Sir Henry Arthur Blake | ||
1907 | 11 july | Hugh Charles Clifford (I) | ||
1907 | 24 august | Sir Henry Edward McCallum | ||
1913 | 24 january | Reginald Edward Stubbs (I) | ||
1913 | 18 october | Robert Chalmers | ||
1915 | 4 december | Reginald Edward Stubbs (II) | ||
1916 | 15 april | Sir John Andersen | ||
1918 | 24 march | Reginald Edward Stubbs (III) | ||
1918 | 10 september | Sir William Henry Manning | ||
1925 | 1 april | Cecil Clementi | ||
1925 | 18 october | Edward Bruce Alexander | ||
1925 | 30 november | Sir Hugh Charles Clifford (II) | ||
1928 | 20 august | Sir Herbert James Stanley | ||
1931 | 11 february | Bernard Henry Bourdillon | ||
1931 | 11 april | Sir Graeme Thomson | ||
1933 | 20 september | Francis Graeme Tyrrell | ||
1933 | 23 december | Reginald Edward Stubbs (IV) | ||
1937 | 30 june | Maxwell MacLagan Wedderburn | ||
1937 | 16 october | Sir Andrew Caldecott | ||
1944 | 19 september | Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore | ||
1947 | 24 september | Don Stephen Senanayake |
YEAR | DATE | EVENT | HEAD OF STATE | PRIME MINISTER | GOVERNOR |
1948 | 4 february | UK Dominion | king George VI | Don Stephen Senanayake | Sir Henry Monck-Mason Moore |
1949 | 6 july | Herwald Ramsbotham, Baron Soulbury |
YEAR | DATE | EVENT | HEAD OF STATE | PRIME MINISTER | GOVERNOR |
1951 | 2 march | ||||
1952 | 6 february | queen Elisabeth II | |||
1952 | 22 march | Dudley Shelton Senanayake (I) | |||
1953 | 12 october | Sir John Lionel Kotelawala | |||
1954 | 17 july | Sir Oliver Ernest Goonetilleke | |||
1956 | 12 april | Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike | |||
1959 | 26 september | Vijayananda Dahanayake | |||
1960 | 21 march | Dudley Shelton Senanayake (II) | |||
1960 | 21 july | Sirimavo Bandaranaike (I) | |||
1962 | 2 march | William Gopallawa | |||
1965 | 27 march | Dudley Shelton Senanayake (III) | |||
1970 | 29 may | Sirimavo Bandaranaike (II) |